Dredging-can.



'.l. R. HARBECK.

DREDGING CAN.

APPLICATION FILED Nov. 22l I9o9.-

1,203, 72.. Patented Nov. 7, 1916.

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'i JnRVIs. R. HARBECK, or nnrnornmrcrirenn, 'nssienon BY MEsNEfAssIGNMEN'rs,

'ro DETROIT CAN company, or Dumon,

MICI-IIGLAN,I` A. CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

DR-EDGING-CAN.

1,203,832, Specification of Letters Patent. .Patentgd NV,

l To all whom may con-cern Be it known that I, JERvIs HARBECK, a citizen of the United States of America, re-

siding in the city of- Detroit and county of' Wayne, State of Michigan, have invented certa-in new and useful Improvements in Dredging-Cans, of which the following 1s a specification, reference being had therein to 3 5 portions of the body can be clamped. Thus,

`ing my improved `top, with the cover detached therefrom; and Fig. 3 is a similar view of the cover for the top. Fig. 4 is a detail enlarged, vertical, sectional View of the upper portion of the dredgingcan and showing the method. of connecting the top and cover to the body. t

In constructing dredging cans designed to hold bath powder, cleansing powder, and Athe like,` it is desirable-in order .to reduce the cost of the can-to form the can vbody ofppasteboard, or heavy paper, while the closures for 'the ends of the body portion are formed of metal.' As the closures have a tendency to pull, or tear out from the paper body jportion, they are preferably. formeddishshaped, thereby giving acomparatively large bearing surface against which the end as shown, A is the can body, formed of pasteboard, and B the bottom, which is of the usual dish-shape, and lits tightly within thelower endof the can. vrI`he annular flange C of the dished bottom has a re-bent portion I), Vwhich engages the end of the body, and is rolled or otherwise'bentto clamp the latter against the flange C. 'However, if the perforated top was formed dish-A shape, it would be positioned' below the plane of the upper edge of the can body', and this would be objectionableI in vdredging cans, in which it is desired to control the apertures in the perforated top by a rotary cover, since-in order to easily rotate the cover-it is preferably positioned above the Application filed-November 22, 1909. Serial No. 529,426.

i plane of the upper edge of the bodyportion, so as to be readily grasped by the hand of the operator.v lInv order to permit the cover to be positioned above the plane ofthe upper edge of the body of the can, and at,

the vsame time obtain the advantage of the `wide bearing surface against which the end portions of the can body are clamped formed .by the vertical flange of the disk closure, I

form the top witha raised portion E provided with one or more perforations F.

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This .raised portion is connected by a laterally-extending flangev G with an annular '.vertical flangeH, which 'fits tightly within K the upper end of the can and forms a wide bearing surface against which the upper end of the can body is clamped lby the rebent portion I of-'the flange H. The raised portion E, when the topis secured to the can body, preferably projects a slightdistance above thel plane vof the upper edge of the body of the can. J is a perforated rotary cover for controlling the apertured portion E and is provided with-an annular flange K engaging the flange I for securing the cover to the can, but the engagement is such asto l' permit the cover to be rotated.

What Iclaim as my invention is,--v p Ina dredging can, in combination.: a fiber body; a sheet metal top formed with an upwardly bulged and perforated centralfeportion, an outer channel portion, ay vertical vflange litting the interior of the body and a seam flange whichfis. crimped into the eX- terior of'l the end ,l of the fiber body, so 'das to permanently compress and secure thesame against said-.vertical flange of the top; and a perforated outwardly bulged coverthe central portion of which lits on the bulged portion of said top and extends over said channel portion and seam flange of the top,'said cover being' formed with a marginal' flange bentdownwardly and inwardly to embrace the exterior of the said seam. flange, to ro.- tatably holdthecover to the top.

' In testimony whereof I aliiX my signature inl presence of two witnesses.

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Witnesses: l

JAMES WHITTEMORE, ADELAIDE I. ADAMS. 

